she almost has to to make that self-defense claim stick. by then, the prosecutor is hoping the jury will have heard so many lies, they won't believe a word out of her mouth. george? >> hard to see what kind of story she could tell. >>> now, we're going to turn to the mystery of what happened to millions of dollars earned by patricia cornwell. it's part of a huge lawsuit with her former money managers. she says they have been ripping her off. but they claim that, quote, cornwell was living large. and john schriffen is here with all of it. >> reporter: this is a lot of money. according to the lawsuit, patricia cornwell says she discovered something was wrong in 2009, when he net worth was around $13 million, the same as her yearly earnings for the past four years. the big question this morning, where did all that money go? this morning, best-selling fiction crime writer patricia cornwell is knee-deep in her own real-life mystery. in a boston courtroom this week, cornwell is suing her wealth management firm, saying it took millions from her wi